Possibly malicious ads are being run on Twitch
Earlier this evening, I was trying to watch a streamer (we'll call them Streamer A) and kept getting a Networking Error #2000 message, even though I had a different stream open in another tab that had no errors (we'll call them Streamer B) and I was still able to use Streamer A's chat, so it's not like I had any problems with my internet connection. I opened new tabs for both Stream A and Stream B, and still got no errors with Streamer B while getting networking errors with Streamer A. Refreshing the page for Streamer A only rarely got me their stream to work, and those moments didn't even last for long until the stream buffered and I got hit with Networking Error #2000 again. Nobody else in Streamer A's chat seemed to be having issues with networking errors except for me. Since Streamer A only did a short stream, I went on with the rest of my night as usual and continued watching Streamer B with no issues.
Some hours later, I see that my antivirus had a bunch of notifications, consisting of about 20 instances of "We've safely aborted connection on video-edge-691980.jfk04.abs.hls.ttvnw.net because it was infected with URL:TechScam." which seemed in line with how many times I tried to refresh the player and/or the page itself trying to watch Streamer A.
Being so insistent on bypassing adblockers is an incredibly unsafe move on Twitch's part if stuff like this is allowed to get through this easily. This has gone beyond ads being annoying to viewers, and going "pwease stop steawling money fwom us with your ad bwockers ):" when people are trying to avoid ads that could actually harm their devices is just plain irresponsible.
Hey there,
Definitely not something that we expect to happen. For more help with this I would recommend reaching out to our team at help.twitch.tv so they can further assist you with investigating this.